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Averett, Chris; Ferraro, David; Tang, Judy; Erberber, Ebru; Stearns, Pat – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international comparative study designed to measure trends in mathematics and science achievement at the fourth and eighth grades, as well as to collect information about educational contexts (such as students' schools, teachers, and homes) that may be related to student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Achievement, International Assessment
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Averett, Chris; Ferraro, David; Tang, Judy; Erberber, Ebru; Stearns, Pat – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) is an international comparative study designed to measure trends in mathematics and science achievement at the fourth and eighth grades, as well as to collect information about educational contexts (such as students' schools, teachers, and homes) that may be related to student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Achievement Tests, Mathematics Achievement, International Assessment
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Bennink, Margot; Croon, Marcel A.; Keuning, Jos; Vermunt, Jeroen K. – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2014
In educational measurement, responses of students on items are used not only to measure the ability of students, but also to evaluate and compare the performance of schools. Analysis should ideally account for the multilevel structure of the data, and school-level processes not related to ability, such as working climate and administration…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Educational Assessment, Educational Testing, Test Bias
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Kastberg, David; Roey, Stephen; Ferraro, David; Lemanski, Nita; Erberber, Ebru – National Center for Education Statistics, 2013
The "U.S. TIMSS and PIRLS 2011 Technical Report and User's Guide" provides an overview of the design and implementation of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2011 and the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) 2011 in the United States and the nine participating benchmarking states:…
Descriptors: Educational Trends, Mathematics Achievement, Science Achievement, Reading Achievement
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Hoadley, Ursula; Muller, Johan – Curriculum Journal, 2016
Why has large-scale standardised testing attracted such a bad press? Why has pedagogic benefit to be derived from test results been downplayed? The paper investigates this question by first surveying the pros and cons of testing in the literature, and goes on to examine educators' responses to standardised, large-scale tests in a sample of low…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Standardized Tests, Developing Nations, Visual Discrimination